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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Yummy411: Contests and How I do my eyebrows

I hope you all are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend. Um, where is my invite to the cookout? It's okay, I'm going to crash the cookout next year though.

LOL

Anyhoozer, I wanted to let you all know about two fab contests going on out in the blogosphere, but very much part of our blogger fam.

*Head over to Fab Vixen's to help her name a series she's starting on her blog. The prize? A $30 Target gift card. Mama loves some Tarjay!

*Next stop by The Beauty of Life to enter into Beauty Chick's Spring contest giving away all kinds of goodies worth $824!!! Do I need to say anymore?!

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I got a reader question asking how do I 'sculpt and shape' my brows with concealer. Or simply, how do I do my brows (I think Lurve asked before.)

Here goes!

I used to do my brows this way. I essentially do the same thing, but I've changed a few things thanks to Tanna J. I still bleach my brows (haven't done it lately).

Here's a before..

Next, I fill in my brows with a 266 brush and Cork eyeshadow. That is done in this pic.

Now here's where things change. Instead of applying concealer with my finger, I use this trusty 208 to apply my concealer.

I use this concealer palette from MAC in medium. They don't sell these in the store anymore, only at the CCO. Any concealer can be used though.

I take my #208 brush and the concealer and pretty much sculpt and shape an eyebrow (use the concealer to draw my desired shape of my brows, almost like doing the white pencil method to tweeze brows.) Often times you do not have to line the top of the brow. This is known as "The MAC brow" in this region (DC area).

I take my #242 brush, spritz it with some Fix+

I then clean up the concealer with the damp #242. This leaves the brow cleaned up and the slight appearance of concealer brightens the brow. Also, some people like Slvrlips don't erase the bottom line with a damp brush like I do. She simply takes the #208 or whichever brush and pulls down the concealer for a 'natural' highlight on the browbone. Basically, tailor the method to fit your desired look (Please excuse Mt. Everest that's taking over in the pic.) A very tedious technique, but worth it for the results.

Finished!And with makeup!.. oh and my new lover Moon Glow mineral eyeshadow by Pure Luxe as my brow highlight. (I used to only use concealer also, but Moon Glow is subtle enough to fit my taste!)

Yums, I've just decided that my brows will never be as fab as yours. LOL, seriously....they are naturally jacked up and I've just learned to except it. You really do make it look effortless, chile. Fo reals....enjoy the extended weekend!

to everyone, thank you for your comments and compliments! it's very interesting to hear you all say this as this is definitely not the trend in celeb makeup. a bit unkept natural brow shows up on a lot of pages of mags! i'm always wondering or feeling like i'm over 'manicuring' my brows... but i like, so whatev...

@ phoebe ann: thank you!!

@ ilurvemakeup: it is when you get a hang of it LOL.. thank you. that is an awesome compliment!

@ askmewhats: thank you!!

@ nordia: yay! i get so excited when i can help out!

@ emilee(gmm); thank you!!

@ christiana divine: thank you! your brows may be jacked at the moment (as you say) but your brows are on point! i never understood how you got yours so perfect until you showed us your tut.

@ bethany: thanks!

@ dominican enigma: you're welcome!

@ divine blackness: girl please! your brows are perfect for and on your face! oh believe that you all only get to see pics of me and my brows that i'm okay with that day... ask tameka LOL she saw me in person.. sans makeup AND nice brows! LOL

@ connie: thanks... let anastasia know for me LOL

@ beautychick101: thank you! you got it! ;)

@ danyelle: thank you! your brows look great as well. whatever works for you is something that you are doing right. hey tell me, since you do your brows the same way as I do, do you ever feel like you can't do your eyebrows without having on other makeup?

Yes! The only time I do my brows is when I have on a full face of makeup; they kinda go together. They are naturally very thick so I don't fill them in with shadow but I do put some brow gel on them when I dont plan on wearing makeup, just to keep them in place...Its either all or nothing with my brows

i agree with you. sometimes it's too much and like i stated before i think it's overly 'manicured' sometimes. the pic of me with the makeup done is when i was going to do a makeup job, so they needed to be nice. my 'go-mommy-go' makeup doesn't see that kind of attention. esp for someon like me with sparse brows, it can be a bit unnatural.

Yeah I remember you posting this, but when I tried to follow your pic by pic, I didn't quiet get it right. Like I said you made it look easy! Ateya's live tut was easier for me to follow and understand. You should do some live tutorial I think it'll be easier for peeps like me who like to see the work in action :)

I'm still annoyed that my MAC muas in my area didn't show me this at all. Seeing it done in person would of helped me a long time ago.